买家花费了超过1.4亿美元来抢购$ trump Meme Coins

4月23日，该数字货币宣布其截至5月12日的前220名持有人将被邀请与总统共进晚餐。

Buyers spent more than $140 million to snap up $TRUMP meme coins in a bid to secure an invitation to an “intimate dinner” with President Trump, according to new data analysis from Inca Digital.

根据INCA Digital的新数据分析，买家花费了超过1.4亿美元来抢购$特朗普的模因硬币，以确保与特朗普总统的“亲密晚餐”邀请。

The digital currency, which is partly owned by an affiliate of the Trump Organization, got a boost on April 23 when it announced that its top 220 holders as of May 12 would be invited to a dinner with the president. That helped raise the value of the meme coin by more than 40% from the announcement through May 12, partially reversing an 88% slump in the weeks prior.

该数字货币部分由特朗普组织的分支机构拥有，于4月23日宣布其截至5月12日的前220名持有人将被邀请与总统共进晚餐。从公告到5月12日，这有助于将模因硬币的价值提高了40％以上，在前几周内部分扭转了88％的低迷。

The top holders of the $TRUMP meme coin spent anywhere from as little as $53,500 to as much as $16.4 million to grab one of the dinner invites with Mr. Trump, Inca Digital’s analysis found.

Inca Digital的分析发现，$ Trump Meme Coin的顶级持有人的花费从不到53,500美元到1640万美元，以与特朗普先生一起邀请一场晚餐。

As of the contest's end on May 12, the biggest holder of the digital currency was an account named Sun VIP, according to the analysis. While it's impossible to know the identity of any of the account owners due to the anonymity of digital wallets, many of the purchases were made through exchanges that don't accept U.S. customers, such as Bybit and Gate.io, Inca's research reveals.

根据分析，截至5月12日结束比赛，数字货币的最大持有人是一个名为Sun VIP的帐户。 Inca的研究透露，由于数字钱包的匿名性，不可能知道任何帐户所有者的身份，但许多购买都是通过不接受美国客户的交流进行的，例如Bybit和Gate.io。

"A ton of these users sent funds to international exchanges," noted Austin Ryan, director of marketing for Inca Digital, a firm that analyzes crypto data for risk issues like liquidity and front-running. "The thought is that if they are interacting with those exchanges, they are not in the U.S."

一家Inca Digital的营销总监Austin Ryan指出：“其中一大吨用户向国际交流汇款。” “想法是，如果他们与这些交流互动，他们就不在美国”

The dinner contest has raised concerns from government watchdogs and Democratic lawmakers about purchases of a Trump-branded asset being linked to access to the president. Also, because the $TRUMP coin is partly owned by CIC Digital, an affiliate of the Trump Organization, he and his family stand to benefit financially from purchases of the meme coin, critics add.

晚宴大赛引起了政府监管机构和民主党立法者的担忧，即购买与总统访问的特朗普品牌资产有关。同样，由于特朗普的$特朗普硬币是由特朗普组织的分支机构CIC Digital拥有的，因此他和他的家人将从购买Meme Coin的购买中受益。

The @TRUMP meme coin site hasn't disclosed the identities of the 220 top holders, who under the promotion are in line to dine with Mr. Trump. Tony Carrk, the executive director of watchdog group Accountable.US, expressed concern because those holders are "shrouded by their anonymous crypto usernames."

@Trump Meme Coin网站尚未透露220名顶级持有人的身份，后者在晋升下与特朗普先生一起用餐。 WatchDog Group callage.us的执行董事托尼·卡尔克（Tony Carrk）表示关注，因为这些持有人“被他们的匿名加密用户名所笼罩”。

The White House and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

白宫和特朗普组织没有立即回应置评请求。

The dinner will take place on May 22 at the Trump National Golf Club in Washington, D.C., according to the $TRUMP meme coin website. The top 25 holders will "will enjoy a Private VIP Reception with President TRUMP" as well as a "Special VIP TOUR," the site adds.

根据$特朗普模因硬币网站，晚餐将于5月22日在华盛顿特朗普国家高尔夫俱乐部举行。该网站补充说，前25名持有人将“将与特朗普总统一起享受私人VIP招待会”以及“特殊VIP之旅”。

Earlier this year, Eric Trump, one of Mr. Trump's sons, called the $TRUMP coin "the hottest digital meme on earth."

今年早些时候，特朗普先生的儿子之一埃里克·特朗普（Eric Trump）称$特朗普硬币为“地球上最热门的数字模因”。

How Trump makes money from his meme coin

特朗普如何从他的模因硬币中赚钱

Decentralization is foundational to cryptocurrency. Bitcoin, the world's most popular crypto, was born in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis as a digital currency meant to be uncontrolled by banks or governments.

权力下放是加密货币的基础。比特币是世界上最受欢迎的加密货币，出生于2008年金融危机之后，是一种数字货币，旨在不受银行或政府的控制。

$TRUMP meme coins can be traded on a decentralized exchange, which is essentially a place where traders can swap goods without a middleman.

$特朗普的模因硬币可以通过分散的交易所进行交易，这实际上是交易者可以在没有中间商的情况下交换商品的地方。

Instead of matching buyers and sellers one by one, decentralized exchanges use something called a liquidity pool to ensure trades can happen easily and instantly. Liquidity pools are essentially an automated pot of funds that pair meme coins like $TRUMP with more popular types of crypto that can be easily traded.

分散的交易所没有将买卖双方一一匹配，而是使用所谓的流动性池来确保交易可以轻松，立即发生。流动性池本质上是自动化的资金库，将模因硬币与$ TRUMP这样的模因硬币与更受欢迎的加密货币搭配在一起，很容易被交易。

When the $TRUMP meme coin was first launched, its creators initially released 20% of the planned 1 billion total coins. Half of that 20% was put up for public sale while the other half was put into a liquidity pool. CIC Digital and another company called Fight Fight Fight, which is helping to promote the meme coin, receive "trading revenue derived from trading activities" of the Trump meme coins, according to its website.

当$特朗普的模因硬币首次推出时，其创作者最初释放了计划10亿枚硬币的20％。该20％的一半被放在公开销售中，而另一半被放入流动性池中。根据其网站，CIC Digital和另一家名为Fight Fight Fight的公司正在帮助推广模因硬币，并获得了特朗普模因硬币的“贸易收入”。

Through the liquidity pool, the creators of Mr. Trump's meme coins make money by charging tiny transactional fees on each trade. Those fees are used to generate more meme coins, which are then added to the liquidity pool to attract more traders. The process repeats itself in a cycle, according to a recent report by the Brookings Institution.

通过流动性池，特朗普先生的模因硬币的创造者通过向每次交易收取微小的交易费用来赚钱。这些费用用于生成更多的模因硬币，然后将其添加到流动性池中以吸引更多的交易者。根据布鲁金斯机构的最新报告，该过程在周期中重复了自己。

The Trump Organization did not immediately respond to a request for comment about how much revenue it has generated from the meme coin.

特朗普组织没有立即回应有关其从模因硬币产生了多少收入的评论请求。

The meme coin also appears to be heating up interest in a new Trump-branded asset. Earlier this month, an NFT collection featuring images of the former president sold out within 24 hours. The Trump Organization did not respond to a request for comment about the NFT collection.

模因硬币似乎也在加热对新的特朗普品牌资产的兴趣。本月初，NFT系列的前总统图像在24小时内售罄。特朗普组织没有回应有关NFT收集的评论请求。

Aimee Picchi is the associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and personal finance. She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets including USA Today and Consumer Reports.

Aimee Picchi是CBS MoneyWatch的副执行编辑，她涵盖了业务和个人理财。她之前曾在彭博新闻（Bloomberg News）工作，并为包括《今日美国》和《消费者报告》在内的国家新闻媒体撰写了撰写文章。

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